Can anyone help me? I'm looking for good books to read, I do not want YA , sci-fi or fantasty.?

Question

I'm 25, please take that into consideration, so I'm not really looking for tween or young adult books. Thanks so much!

Answer 1

Patricia Cromwell books are good. She writes suspenseful murder mysteries. All of her books are pretty good. I know you don't want young adult, but the Harry Potter books are great, adults and kids like them. Many Adults that I know love those books. Each one gets a little darker. The first one is the most childish, and each one gets a little more serious and adult like. Diana Gabaldon did a trilogy, the first one it the series is called "The outlander", and it is a great book. It is a love/adventure story. Not being a romance story fan, I was reluctant to read that one, but my friends insisted that I read the book, and I am very grateful to them for that. "I know this much is True" by Wally Lamb, is also an excellent book. It is about a twin, and his mentally ill brother (the other twin), their family, and how he comes to terms with his own life.

Answer 2

I agree with the Book Thief, it's definitly an interesting read that I wouldn't categorize as scifi. I'm currently reading a slew of humor/fiction books that are amazing

The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys
-Michael Chabon

Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
--Jonathan Safron Foer

The History of Love (not in the funny category but she's awesome)
-Nicole Krauss

A Dirty Job, Fluke, Lamb, and everything else by
-Christopher Moore

The Curious INcident of the Dog at Nighttime
-Mark Haddon

About a Boy, High Fidelity, A Long Way Down
-Nick Hornby

as for others, check out Sue Monk kidd, Michael Cunningham, White Oleander, Anne Tyler, Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead is one of the best books every written in the history of mankind), John Irving

Have fun!

Answer 3

John Grisham books. They are all about the legal industry. The list is long but some good ones are: the Partner, the Firm, A Time to Kill, the Broker. A lot of his books were made into movies. On a more human side, books by J. California Cooper an African-American female writer. She has the best short stories with good moral messages in them, but set to everyday African American life. Her books are soul-stirring and even humorous. Good luck.

Answer 4

Ok everyone else has offered their suggestions, so here's mine
any book by James Patterson. He has something to offer for everyone. Kiss the Girls started me off loving the Alex Cross (he's a character in the books), they are really suspenseful and will have you guessing up untill the very end. He also has the First to Die series, in which the heroes of the book are women.
Then there's Suzanne's Diary for Nicolas, and Sam's letters to Jennifer, they are really good.
The Nicolas Sparks Books are good as well, but I suggest that you have some Kleenex on hand.

Answer 5

For Horror, there's books by Stephen King or Dean Koontz. Mystery there's Carol and Mary Higgins Clark, Thriller John Grisham and Linda Fairstein, Romance Danielle Steel and Stella Cameron and Sandra Brown. It all depends on the genre.

Answer 6

The best book that I have read was when I was 24, it is called:
"She's come undone" by Walley Lamb. I gave it to my other friend and she read it in two days. This book starts slow for the first 4 chapters, but I can guarantee you that after one thing happens you cannot put it down. And the author really really makes it colorful like you can actually see the characters.

Answer 7

Irving Stone has written many novelized biographies of famous people: Van Gogh, Michael Angelo, Sigmund Freud. The books are long and involved, but you learn what made these people "tick" and why they are considered so important in Western civilization.
James Mitchner has written many books about different parts of the world: Hawaii, Texas, Mexico. His books are incredibly well researched and informative.
Both authors write HUGE books. These are not easy to tote around, so be forewarned.

Answer 8

Annie Proulx (pronounced /proo/) (born August 22, 1935) is an American (with Quebec origins) journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards. She has written most of her stories and books simply as Annie Proulx, but has also carried the name E. Annie Proulx. She also wrote Brokeback Mountain but do not let this book's subject matter throw you off! Her scope of writing topics/storyline is broad, broad, broad! :-)

Answer 9

Dante's "Inferno".
Milton's "Paradise Lost"
"Sophie's Choice"
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I think)
Anything by Paul Cohelo ("The Alchemist") or Saul Bellow ("Henderson the Rain King")
"Q & A" (A good book about a young Indian man who wins a game show and is arrested.)

Answer 10

One of my all-time favorite books is "The Stand" by Stephen King.
Also check out "The Eight" by Katherine Neville.
And "April 1865: The Month That Saved America" by Jay Winik